Northfield

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About this Neighborhood

Northfield reads as a comfortable, lived-in stretch rather than a destination, and that's its charm. Twenty-nine restaurants at a solid 4.0 average anchor a mix that runs from Italian to pho to burger joints, with seven coffee shops filling the gaps between meals. The practical stuff is all here: four grocers, six fitness spots and five parks make it easy to keep a routine without leaving the neighborhood. Foursquare regulars gravitate toward the coffee shops, burger joints and bakeries, the kind of unfussy places you return to on a weekday.